Maryland-College Park Announces Weeklong Sequester The University of Maryland's main campus in College Park on Saturday announced that all on-campus students would sequester in place for at least a week and that all instruction would move online beginning Monday. University officials cited a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases: Maryland's pandemic dashboard shows a total of 74 cases
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MICHIGAN â When Rachel Klausâ 12-year-old daughter Sarah was complaining about her neck hurting on Thanksgiving 2019, she immediately took her to the emergency room to get it checked out. The nurse practitioner examined her and said it was a virus and that she should rest up at home.
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Celebrating Charles Scrutchin: Minnesota s first Black lawyer outside the Twin Cities and a defender of civil rights
Charles Scrutchin was Minnesota’s first Black lawyer to practice outside of the Twin Cities. He often represented lumberjacks and other laborers, many of whom had recently immigrated to the country. In the 32 years he lived in Bemidji he handled over 500 cases in Beltrami County.
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A portrait of Charles Scrutchin by area artist Alice Blessing is on display at the Bemidji High School. The school’s media center was named after Scrutchin in 2018. Photo courtesy of the Beltrami County Historical Society.
Charles Scrutchin, Minnesota’s first Black lawyer to practice outside of the Twin Cities and frequently described in early Bemidji Pioneer stories as “Bemidji’s colored lawyer,” arrived in Bemidji just two years after the village had incorporated and soon became one of its most significant citizens.
Scrutchin often represented lumberjacks and other laborers, many of whom had recently immigrated to the country. In the 32 years he lived here, he handled over 500 cases in Beltrami County, many of them attention-getting criminal cases involving theft, graft and murder. But some of Scrutchin’s greatest accomplishments had wider ranging effects for Minnesota and the civil rights of the state’s citizens.
UMass Issues Stay-at-Home Order for 2 Weeks Feb. 8, 6:24 a.m. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst ordered all students to "self-sequester" for two weeks. "Self-sequestration means that students must stay in their residences, both on and off campus, except to get meals, undergo twice-weekly COVID testing, or to attend medical appointments. In addition, to minimize